A Department of Defense whistleblower reported to Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., that 324 of the individuals the Biden administration evacuated from Afghanistan and welcomed into the U.S. have appeared on the Pentagon’s watch list, including known, presumed terrorists.
Fox News reported in February that no less than 50 Afghan evacuees were brought to the U.S. in the wake of the U.S. departures from Afghanistan whose information indicated "potentially serious security concerns." The information came in a Pentagon inspector general report, which showed that U.S. government officials were unable to locate dozens of those individuals who had "derogatory information" that would make them ineligible for parole.
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A footnote in that inspector general report announced that the "significant security concerns include individuals whose latent fingerprints have been found on improvised explosive devices and known or suspected terrorists" and for which officials would send that derogatory information to appropriate Pentagon personnel.
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Throughout a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Hawley asked Wray regarding the whistleblower’s report and on whether he was aware that 324 — not 50 — individuals had entered the U.S. with derogatory information, presenting a "graver" situation.
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"I don’t know that I have the exact number," Wray testified. "I know there are a number of individuals through our joint-terrorism task forces that we are actively trying to investigate as a result."
Wray explained to Hawley that there have been "a number of interviews of individuals who came — lots of interviews, frankly, of individuals who came as part of the evacuation."
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"I think there have been a number of disruptions," he announced. "How many of them have been arrests and under what charges and so forth, I’d have to get back to you."
Wray explained to the committee that the joint-terrorism task forces are "engaged in the effort to investigate potential terrorist activity, and any number of them would potentially involve people who came from Afghanistan."
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Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Wray if the FBI knows where in the U.S. the flagged evacuees are located.
"We have a lot of information about where people are located," Wray stated. "I can't sit here right now and say we know where all are located at any given time."
The whistleblower further claimed that the White House and DOD officials directed agency personnel to cut corners and not conduct full fingerprint tests of Afghan evacuees.